Example sentences of "off [prep] the [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are countless individual stories encapsulated in the photographs of migrant workers arriving at Continental stations or commuters pouring into the London termini , of the Jews being herded on to trains headed for the death-camps , or of armies departing for half a dozen different wars — the brave , cheerful , youthful faces of a nation 's young men heading off for the rendezvous with destiny . |
| 2 | When the attack ceased they managed to cannibalize parts to get one truck going and set off for the rendezvous with Fraser , only to find nobody there . |
| 3 | He caught up with her on the far side of the teahouse , in an area that was roped off for the staff 's use only . |
| 4 | ELECTRA KICKED off with the folk music of the '50s , went through the late '60s underground of the Doors/Stooges/MC5 , drifted into the Asylum California scene of the '70s and arrived in the '90s of new boss Bob Krasnow whose tenure has seen the addition of soul , in the shape of Pendergrass , Anita Baker and others . |
| 5 | ELECTRA KICKED off with the folk music of the '50s , went through the late '60s underground of the Doors/Stooges/MC5 , drifted into the Asylum California scene of the '70s and arrived in the '90s of new boss Bob Krasnow whose tenure has seen the addition of soul , in the shape of Pendergrass , Anita Baker and others . |
| 6 | Then he became Treasurer of the fund to save St Erks church — and ran off with the £1000 in the appeal fund . |
| 7 | Last week Mr Harper 's brother Paul offered a £500 reward for information leading to the conviction of the four-man gang which made off with the £3,000 haul . |
| 8 | Cos then you ca n't get off with the people you want to . |
| 9 | ‘ Nonsense , ’ said Finn , and Lydia decided that even had he not gone off with the duck their relationship would have had no future . |
| 10 | Perhaps he might he better off in the works office ? |
| 11 | And after two or three years of ‘ what seemed like free fall ’ in the early 80s , there has been a significant levelling off in the sales graph and the cost base has been radically improved . |
| 12 | I went on down the passage , towards the green baize door that closed the back premises off from the gentry 's quarters , pushed the door open , and trod tentatively into the front hall . |
| 13 | The Postal side of the Polish Post , Telegraph and Telephone company , which was split off from the Telecoms side back in January , is to become one of the earliest recipients of an IBM mainframe running the firm 's AIX Unix implementation . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's not right for politicians to offer a sanitised campaign cut off from the people they 're asking to elect them , ’ he said . |
| 15 | She is a Christian which by silly standards should cut her off from the people in our predominantly Buddhist country … |
| 16 | When their journey began , a crucial ingredient consisted in Boswell being able to show Johnson off to the people of Scotland who met him . |
| 17 | The roan may try to break off among the trees. , |
| 18 | Despite the fact that the public purse had been so shamefully ripped off by the sales and the asset stripping , it was left to the ratepayers , through the local authority , to pick up the tab . |
| 19 | We were being given a marvellous send off by the people there but I was not too sure about the starting pistol that George McGuire was wielding though , maybe I would be put out of my misery sooner than I thought ! |